Guild of Music Supervisors Awards 2025 winners
Music counselors behind the songs of “Wicked” and “A Complete Unknown” led the winners on the 15th annual Guild of Music Supervisors Awards on Sunday evening.
On the TV side, the music supervisors behind “Agatha All Wand” and “Baby Reindier”.
Stephen Schwartz received the Icon Award to celebrate his contributions to the music and film industry. The composer and copywriter performed his song “Beautiful City” on the stage of his musical “Godspell.”
Oscar nomineed Abraham Alexander and Adrian Quesada performed their nominated song “Like a Bird” from “Sing Sing”, which wrote the prize for the best song and/or recorded for a movie. In the meantime, Danielle Ponder carried out her nominated song “Egún” from Apple TVs “Manhunt” and the role model of the artists carried out their song “Sally, When the Wine Out” as the Spotlight artist of the evening.
Music producer and supervisor Bonnie Greenberg accepted the Legacy Award for her excellent career in music supervision.
Steve Schnur, Music Supervisor and Executive at EA Games, dominated the evening with two victories for his work on the video game, “Dragon Age: The Veilguard.”
The event was produced by the Guild of Music Supervisors Awards Production Committee: President Lindsay Wolfington, Vice President Heather Guibert, Janet Lopez, Priya Autrey and Joel C High. The show production was handled by Angelia Shepperd from ABS Collective with talent producer Julie Donsky and technical PPproduction by Nick Urbom from Big Push Media Group.
The full winners list for the 15th annual Guild of Music Supervisors Awards is mentioned below.
FILM
Best Music Supervision in Large Budget Films
Maggie Rodford – “Wicked”
Best music supervisor in budget films at the middle level
Steven Gizicki – “A completely unknown”
Best Music Supervision in Movies with Low Budget
Jessica Berndt, Chris Swanson – “I saw the TV glow”
Best Music Supervision in a non-Theatrical moved film
Robin Urdang- “The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat”
Best song written and/or recorded for a movie
“Like a Bird” – “Sing Sing”
Songwriters: Abraham Alexander, Brandon Marcel, Adrian Quesada
Performers: Abraham Alexander, Adrian Quesada
Music counselor: Dan Wilcox
Television
Best music counselor in a television drama
Catherine deserves – “Baby Reindier” season 1
Best music counselor in a television comedy
Jen Ross – “English teacher” season 1
Best Music Supervision in reality television
Meryl Ginsberg, Sara Torres, Jordan Young – “Love Island USA” season 6
Best song written and/or recorded for television
“The Ballad of the Witches” Road (Sacred Chant Version) ” -‘Agatha All Eg The Ally’
Songwriters: Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez
Performers: Agatha All Weding Cast (Ali Ahn, Kathryn Hahn, Patti Lupone, Debra Jo Rupp, Sasheer Zamata)
Music counselors: Dave Jordan, Justine von Winterfeldt
Documentaries
Best music supervisor in a documentary film
Aminé Ramer – “Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary”
Best music supervision in a docuseries
Sam Carlin, Drew Kramer – “Lolla: The Story of Lollapalooza” season 1
Ads
Best music counselor in advertisements (synchronization)
Peymon Maskan, Gemma Schladow, Alec Stern, Jenna Wilson – “Power of She”
Best music supervision in advertisements (original music)
Patrick Lawrence Zappia – “Give your gift.”
Best music supervision in advertisements (long form)
Al Risi – “An American Love Story”
Trailers
Best Music Supervision in a trailer (film)
Maggie Baron – “Anora” – Official Redband Trailer
Best Music Supervision in a trailer (series)
Deric Berberabe, Hudson Saxe, Jordan Silverberg – “Severance: Season 2” – Official trailer
Best music supervision in a trailer (video game & interactive)
Jonny Altepeter, Jackie Palazzolo, Vitaly Shenderovsky – “Valorant” – clove agent Trailer – 2 Worlds
Video games
Best Music Supervision in a video game (synchronization)
Raphaella Lima, Cybele Pettus, Steve Schnur – “EA Sports FC 25”
Best Music Supervision in a video game (original music)
Steve Schnur – “Dragon Age: The Veilguard”
Composers: Lorne Balfe, Hans Zimmer
